DATA STORY: Active cases up; Bengal 3rd state to give 10 mn vax doses

India has so far administered 1,303,932,286 vaccine doses. That is 3761.38 per cent of its total caseload, and 93.21 per cent of its population

India on Thursday reported a net increase of 1,009 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 94,742. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.44 per cent (one in 227). The country is twenty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Wednesday, it added 8,251 cases to take its total caseload to 34,097,388 from 34,656,822 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 159 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 474,111, or 1.37 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 8,086,910 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Wednesday, India’s total count